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Comment on Helen: simply delicious carrot and artichoke soup by Milos

Milos — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:29:49 +0000

Nice post! Look forward to trying the soup

Comment on Ann and Ian: pasta making by eating-local

eating-local — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:08:21 +0000

This looks great, Ann and Ian! (Very professional-looking photos!) I only wish I could find some local gluten-free flour so I could have a go (although i would have to find a substitute for eggs, because of the food-combining I do). Does anyone know where to find local gluten-free flour? (Glebe Farm have local gluten-free oats, but get the ingredients for their gluten-free flour from further afield.)
Bev

Comment on Bev: fast food, treats and disappointments by Dave Fox

Dave Fox — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:17:34 +0000

Bev, glad you liked the veg, it’s an honour to see it alongside Simon’s! Can bring more next week. By the way, these days I am just one of a committee of fifteen who manage the Trumpington allotment site and its 90 tenant gardeners.

Comment on Bev: spectacular soup and partridge casserole! by eating-local

eating-local — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:57:34 +0000

Sounds very special, Pam! I always bring back wonderful things from France, but not usually made by family or friends! Thanks for the good wishes!
Bev

Comment on Ann and Ian: week 2 by Michele Mattioni

Michele Mattioni — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:00:40 +0000

Hello there,

I find this experiment very interesting. I would be very interested to talk to you and understand where and how you find your local food.

BTW, I’m working on making it more easy to find, together with the Cambridge food group. Would be nice to meet once, maybe

Comment on Bev: spectacular soup and partridge casserole! by Pam Adcock, Friend of Bev (Woman of Note!)

Pam Adcock, Friend of Bev (Woman of Note!) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:59:08 +0000

Good luck, Bev, I’ll watch with interest.
I know its not local to us, but, as you know, my daughter, Carolyn, now lives in France. They came over on a flying visit a week before Christmas, visiting family and friends on a whistle stop tour. The goats had gone “on holiday” to stay with a friend who lives in a wood. The chickens, being free range, were able to fend for themselves, being left sufficient water. The pigs, sheep and rabbits had by then continued on their journey of self-sufficiency and we were brought homemade paté, brawn and black pudding and what somehow appealed to me most, half a dozen eggs lain by the chickens we had met in the summer in the place where we were in the summer. It just felt so special and close and they tasted wonderful!

Comment on Gearing up! Jane by Tony

Tony — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:30:32 +0000

Hi Jane, I’ve been vegan for 25 years now and have very little soya in my house. Currently I have some cartons of “Spelt” milk that were out of date stock going cheap but usually I just use my blender with some cashews, sunflower seeds, or almonds (the last 2 can be uk grown) to make a milk for my cereal.
Mostly what we eat is habit or because we like the taste whether or not it is good for us. Probably 50% of my food this year has either been home grown, foraged or from skips and I am aiming to increase that each year using Permaculture principles.
Don’t forget that huge amounts of soya are fed to animals (with the associated inefficiency)
Good luck with your experiment, drop me a line if you want any tips.
Tony

Comment on Milk substitutes (1) – Jane by Aymeric

Aymeric — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:49:43 +0000

Dear Jane,

As the makers of GOOD HEMP Milk, I can at least give you a bit more information on the eco-credential of our GOOD Hemp Milk.

GOOD Hemp is the only non-dairy milk made from a UK crop and produced in the UK. The Hemp we grow in the UK for our GOOD products is very sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Hemp is simply the second fastest growing plant (after bamboo). During the growth, it will absorb 4x more CO2 than trees on the same surface.
We use everything in the plant: The seeds are used to make our GOOD products (Hemp oil, Hemp Seed, Hemp Milk) and the straw is used to make ec0-building materials with great thermal efficiency. This allows us to lock CO2 in the walls of the buildings (M&S built one of their stores with Hemcretes).

And… it does not curdle in Tea & Coffee!

Comment on Milk substitutes (1) – Jane by Tom Bragg

Tom Bragg — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:38:32 +0000

Hi Jane. I’m sipping tea with “Good Hemp”, another milk substitute
It’s ok, but I’m wondering whether to wean myself! I’ve also tried Ecomil Almond milk, which I prefer, but it’s pricey: £3.25/litre from Arjuna. I’ve kept some for you to try on Wednesday.

We seem to be avoiding soya milk so far. I’m interested, if you can discover anything about their environmental impact.

Comment on Gearing up! Jane by Bev

Bev — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:13:32 +0000

Great that you are going to research sources of sustainable soya, Jane! I have been taking the lazy way out for a while, and trying to avoid soya products altogether, since I found out about the associated destruction of rainforest from Greenpeace. I just googled the subject and found an interesting 2010 summary from Sustainweb (“soya, the ubiquitous bean”, which explains how soya is in so many products – we often don’t know it’s there). Good hunting!
Bev

Comment on Carolyn: Finally posted my first ever blog! by admin

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:11:32 +0000

If anyone would like to borrow my book on making sourdough bread, which tells you how to trap your own sourdough, you’re welcome. Otherwise, the bread man on the market might let you have a bit of culture as he does sometimes give it away.

Comment on Carolyn: We’re only human… by eating-local

eating-local — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:23:54 +0000

The local milk dispenser sounds a wonderful idea< Jane! Such a pity we don't have much dairy round here! Maybe we could do that for apple juice, but obviously only at a particular time of year – ie right now! (By the way, if anyone wants apples juiced, you can take your own apples to Burwash Manor Farm at Barton and have them juiced on Saturday as part of their Apple Day, but you need to take your own bottles!
Bev

Comment on Carolyn: We’re only human… by Jane

Jane — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:56:03 +0000

Hi Rod, Bev, Penny and Carolyn! I’ve enjoyed reading your blog and think you’re all doing brilliantly. Its hard enough to construct even one meal from local ingredients so well done.
I think Penny makes a good point about the dairy as where you live clearly has an impact on what kind of things are available. I’m in Cumbria this week staying with my mum and dad and lots of local dairy produce around. There’s even a machine that’s been installed in the village to dispense locally produced milk into your own containers. Never seen anything like this before – apparently they’re all the rage in Italy!

Comment on Carolyn: Finally posted my first ever blog! by Pam Adcock, Friend of Bev (Woman of Note!)

Pam Adcock, Friend of Bev (Woman of Note!) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:21:49 +0000

Very interesting reading. Just wanted to mention that Al Amin sells eggs from Donington in South Lincolnshire. This is special to me because my family comes from that village. My father and his eight siblings grew up there and I still have a cousin there, so I really enjoy these eggs.
Pam

Comment on Bev: breakfast without oats! by Sue King

Sue King — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:03:00 +0000

This is a really interesting project and I’m really sympathetic towards it.

I think there are extra things to be thought about for people who, like me, live in a rural village (in my case, in Herefordshire, which is England’s most sparsely populated county). I’m thinking about how different our situation is from yours in Cambridge, where there is a concentration of wide-ranging shopping facilities in the town centre though I do realize that some of the outlets mentioned will be out of town as well.

There are lots of shops around here that sell locally produced food but most of them are in places you’d have to drive a good few miles to, and most of them sell a fairly narrow range of things. So when you are doing your shopping – food and other things – you have to weigh up the value of buying locally produced food against the aim of reducing your use of a car.

As we sit in our garden we see huge trailerloads of potatoes being driven away from local farms, but I’m pretty sure the village shop does not sell them. (The post office-cum-pub-cum-cafe-cum-secondhand bookshop, mind you, does have a mini vegetable stall, selling a few locally grown this and that, and I generally get carrots and occasionally other veg there.)